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Thousands of protester s march, demand Gorbachev’s resignation MOSCOW - Hundreds of thou sands of reformers marched Sunday to the edge of the Kremlin to demand that their onetime hero, Soviet Presi dent Mikhail Gorbachev, resign for his role in the crackdown on Lithu ania. The crowd streamed into Manezh Square, near the Kremlin gardens and in sight of its mighty towers, under red, yellow and green Lithuanian flags. Participants also carried red, white and blue Russian flags, as well as banners denouncing Gorbachev. Police estimated the crowd at up to 300,000. In Leningrad, about 40,000 pro testers marched to the square in front of the palace where the Russian czar once lived. Their banners read, “Lithu ania, We Are With You,” “Gorbachev Kills” and “Gorbachev Resign.” At the Moscow rally, Yuri Afana siev, a historian and leader of the Democratic Russia reform movement, told protesters that rallies were held in more than a dozen other major cities to protest the Jan. 13 military assault on the Lithuanian broadcast center that left 14 dead and hundreds wounded. Afanasiev told them the two-hour rally was called to rebuff the reac tionary course he said Gorbachev now is charting, and the crowd shouted, “Resign! Resign!” Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, Gorbachev’s most potent political rival, held him directly re sponsible for the killings in Lithuania and for the dismal state he said the country now is in. “The danger of dictatorship... has become a reality,” said a Yeltsin state ment, read by a supporter. “The president has started on the course of whipping up ethnic pas sions, supporting self-proclaimed committees of salvation, striving for power, on the path of justifying the use of weapons against a peaceful population.” When the army moved on the separatist Lithuanians, it said it was answering a plea from a previously unknown pro-Moscow group called the National Salvation Committee. The rally’s only quiet moment came when Afanasiev asked a moment of silence for Lithuania’s dead. The protest was held exactly a year after a Soviet crackdown on ethnic militants in southern Azerbaijan republic left more than 130 people dead. Many major reformers like For eign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze have left Gorbachev’s inner circle, charging he is heading toward a dic tatorship. The crackdown on Lithuania ap pears to have re-energized reformers, who have appeared discouraged by Gorbachev’s move to the right. Former Liberian vice president claims presidential leadership FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - The vice president of Liberia under slain leader Samuel Doe declared himself president Sunday, further complicat ing efforts to settle that nation’s civil war. Harry Moniba was the third person claiming to be Liberia’s leader, though his close association with the discred ited Doe will make him unpopular with many Liberians. He made the declaration at a news conference in Sierra Leone, this West African nation neighboring Liberia, where he fled the war in September saying he feared for his life. Moniba said he believed his leadership could help resolve an apparent impasse in a peace process to build on a fragile truce. He said a West African-backed interim government led by veteran politician Amos Sawyer was uncon stitutional, and he called for Sawyer to resign. Sawyer was chosen by exiled Li berian politicians, businessmen and church leaders at a conference spon sored by the Economic Community of West African States. He has been installed in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, under the protection of a five nation West African army sent to force an end to the war. The main rebel leader, Charles Taylor, is also opposed to Sawyer’s leadership. Taylor has set up a rival administration in the northern Libe rian town of Gbarnga. He calls him self president cf Liberia, citing the fact that his men have overrun most of the country outside of Monrovia. Taylor started the war with an invasion from Ivory Coast in Decem ber 1989, saying he wanted to oust a corrupt and brutally oppressive re gime. Doe was slain in Monrovia on Sept 9 by rebels of a breakaway faction led by Prince Johnson. Yugoslavian police on alert ZAGREB, Yugoslavia - Special police units fanned out across the Croatian capital Sunday to prevent a possible move by the Yugoslav army against the independence-minded republic. Slovenia also readied its forces. “If we arc attacked by the army, we will shoot back, of course,” de clared a special police officer stand ing guard at a government building in Zagreb. The two northern republics of Croatia and Slovenia have non-Com muriist governments that seek greater autonomy from the Yugoslav federa lion. They are worried that the central government will crack down while the world is preoccupied with war in the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia’s collective federal presidency last week ordered all ‘‘il legal paramilitary groups” in the country disarmed and disbanded by Saturday. On that day, it extended the deadline until Tuesday. It has instructed the Communist dominated military to enforce the order thereafter. 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